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August 7, 2002 by Michael Boyle

To read

: Web Standards for Hard Times in WebMonkey (which, incidentally, with Wired News might be the only part of that old empire that’s still relevant).

Tags: Standards, Web, Wired

Bruce Sterling

August 7, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Bruce Sterling

gave a very interesting speech last week, which has (of course) been published on his site: Viridian Note 00325: Open Source Speech. Very interesting, particularly the following passage: “The result is 95% market domination by Microsoft. But that’s not a market economy. That’s not even capitalism. That is a state-capitalist, state-sanctioned monopoly that Mussolini would have smiled on. Mussolini used to give the people of Italy free radios. But they would only tune in to the fascist station. This was supposed to be the only kind of radio that people in Italy understood. This was the entirety of Italian radio as a medium. Mussolini’s radio had just one big dial on the front that said ‘Radio Zone.'”

Tags: Microsoft

Tom Tomorrow

August 6, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Tom Tomorrow

: The history of the dot-com economy and the history of the war on terror — recounted in a single cartoon!

Tags: International Affairs

Things I learned on my summer vacation

August 4, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Things I learned on my summer vacation
  1. The depth of field of photographs I take with my old digital camera sucks
  2. It takes but a few days to bond with a puppy, but it takes two weeks to really develop a relationship
  3. I can live without blogging just fine. I knew that already, but taking a week off confirmed it. I don’t want to or intend to stop, though
  4. Aaron, with a beard and pilot’s glasses, bears some resemblance to the old unabomber sketch that they circulated a few years ago
  5. Jish is still Jish. This is unquestionably a good thing, and it was nice to have a quick visit with the man while he was here
  6. BBQs are great cooking devices
  7. Vacations are, in general, wonderful things.

Tags: Aaron Straup Cope, Food, Jish, Personal

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